The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” That was Karl Marx, but it could as easily have ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

The word Tennessee does not appear in Harrison’s book until page 30 where he wrote, “Director sired Direct, a double-gaited ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

The reconstruction was produced by an international research team led by Dr Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at Midwestern ...

According to Dr Baab, this may reflect the Gona population preserving traits from the earliest Homo erectus groups that left ...

New study reveals that no human society has ever been truly Egalitarian, reshaping how we understand inequality and human social life.

The discovery and the use of fire changed the nature of the digestion of food, creating additional calories. Serotonin, a ...

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While studying the remains of two prehistoric Homo habilis individuals from present-day Tanzania, researchers determined that they were attacked by a large carnivore nearly 2 million years ago. But ...

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